Ethereum layer-2 MegaETH will launch its mainnet on Feb. 9 after completing a large-scale stress test that processed more than 10.7 billion transactions and peaked at about 35,000 transactions per second.
MegaETH co-founder and chief technology officer Lei Yang said the testing showed the chain could support latency-sensitive applications at scale, calling it “the fastest EVM chain” after a week-long global trial.
During the test, selected users ran real-time Web3 games while developers pushed backend limits, with investor Simon Dedic saying the apps showed “no latency” or congestion despite heavy load.
The stress test volume exceeded the total number of transactions processed by Ethereum over nearly 11 years, although it fell slightly short of MegaETH’s internal target of 11 billion.
MegaETH aims to deliver sub-millisecond latency and theoretical capacity above 100,000 TPS, though the team acknowledged real-world throughput is likely to be lower, as seen on other high-speed chains.
The project is backed by Ethereum co-founders Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin alongside venture firms including Dragonfly Capital, Figment Capital and Big Brain Holdings.
MegaETH’s path to launch follows challenges late last year, when it returned $500 million raised in a pre-deposit sale after technical and operational issues ahead of mainnet deployment.
At the time of reporting, Ethereum price was $2,956.72.